Welcome to our contribution to the Pirelli Einstein Challenge.

The Pirelli Relativity Challenge 2005 is a special award to mark the centenary of Albert Einstein's publication "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" ("Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper"), which was published on June 30, 1905. This paper which first introduced his theory of Special Relativity, was just one of several works he published in this 'year of wonders'.

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